Passport to Shame
Passport to Shame (also known as Room 43 and Room Forty Three), is a 1958 British drama film directed by Alvin Rakoff and starring Diana Dors and Herbert Lom. It was written by Patrick Alexander.
Plot
Nick Biaggi runs a finance company that provides unsecured loans to naïve young women – a facade for manipulating them into prostitution. He recruits many of these women from abroad and to get them passports arranges "husbands" for them in marriages of convenience. His newest recruit is Marie Louise "Malou" Beaucaire and her sham husband will be Johnny McVey, a Canadian cab driver who owes money to Nick.
More details
| author | Patrick Alexander |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Alvin Rakoff |
| editor | Lee Doig |
| events | prostitution |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | cab driver engage held captive sex work upper class young women |
| musicBy | Ken Jones |
| producer | John Clein |
| productionCompany | United Co Productions |
| publisher | British Lion Films |